The Gold Coast’s M-Phazes drops his debut album titled Good Gracious on February 25th.  If you don’t know who M-Phazes is, you’ve been living under a rock for far too long.  M-Phazes is doing what everyone in australian hip hop wishes they could, breaking the US market, while still calling Australia home.  I was gonna start listing his production credits, but it’s seriously just too much; you can head to his MySpace and see a list of stuff he’s worked on.  Follow through to read more about M-Phazes – Good Gracious.

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Sydney sider Phatchance is set to tour most of the country over March 2010 with Coptic Soldier, starting in Busselton, WA and ending in Mullumbimby, NSW.  Some of the shows are free, some are going to cost you a pittance; either way i think you should be in attendance.  Obviously this isn’t everyones kind of hip-hop, but if you’re into Phatchance do the lad a favour and be there.  More details are available at www.officialphatchance.com or www.iforgetsorry.com or click through and read more.

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More freebies from the Australian hip hop community.  Coming straight out of Hobart (or the Gold Coast now it may seem) is mdusu dropping a free mixtape titled The Excess Baggage Mixtape, who you may know from mdusu&dameza and Heads of State. mdusu explains on his MySpace blog that this mixtape was basically a vehicle to help him get some things off his chest and put them in the past; music, especially hip hop is great for this kind of thing.

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Crate Cartel serve up another fine free EP to the masses.  This time Fatty Phew drops the vocaloid mastery while Alter Ego steps up for production alongside DJ Bogues for the cuts, all under the the guise of the best things in life begin free.   I haven’t had a chance to check all of this out yet, so i’m not really sure what to expect, according to the press you should be expecting pure hip hop.  Snap up a copy of some pure hip hop from Fatty Phew & crew now.

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It seems the hip hop industry in Australia is full of freebies at the moment and the first i’m going to talk about is the offering from Crate Cartel.  Geko drops a free EP titled The Appointment, which is basically the end result of a weekend spent in the studio with Doc Savage in early 2009 and some extra remixes by Jase. 9 tracks (including the remixes) of Crate Cartel hip hop, direct from Melbourne, Australia that you can get free of charge

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Late last year, after a heavy release schedule of great albums, Shogun Distribution quietly disappeared, it seems they declared bankruptcy. Over the past few months, all of their catalogue has disappeared from iTunes and most are unable to be ordered from stores that don’t already have stock; It seems as far as some record stores are concerned, Shogun just doesn’t exist anymore. Some artists have got new distribution deals and their stuff is leaking back through digital distribution channels again, others are left stranded, money blown.

I purchased pretty much EVERY cd from the 2009 Shogun release catalogue and most of 2008, on the faith that by doing so i was supporting the artist and ensuring that things I enjoyed listening to would continue to exist. However it seems that perhaps my support in some cases hasn’t be passed onto the artists and I want to know why, as i’m sure many others do. Yes bankruptcy kind of absolves company owners of having to personally foot the bill for failed ventures, but morally this is off the chart.

As a fan i feel what happened here needs to be opened up and put in public, as a website owner and writer, i feel i’m in a position to help people do this. So i’m putting it out there now, if anyone wants to discuss this with me to set the record to the public, theres a contact link at the top of this page. We don’t have to mention names, let’s just open this thing up, artists got screwed for their hard work and that’s not cool, call it out for what it is, don’t hide behind a false hope of getting your money .

The fans, the people who really support hip hop, are wondering why all that good music just disappeared and no ones saying a thing.

Mandle and Planz drop a video for the track Yellow Fever, the description on youtube somes it up best.

Since we couldnt hire a video camera or a camera crew in thailand without a permit, and couldnt get a permit without submitting our lyrics to the thaiwanese government, which would equal jail time for sure, we were forced to shoot this on our digital camcorder (on a budget of $13.27) in the confines of our hotel room with a few hookers…. i mean “dancers”. Fucking gay homo laws. well anyway.. here is the outcome….

Kid Selzy drops another video for the track Grimey Shit, of his 2009 release The Creepshow.

You can grab Kid Selzy’s album The Creepshow direct from the man himself or grab it from itunes.